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Comment by mark_edward | Hacker News Reader

Why do people pretend that rural people are a majority or even close to it. In the US it's 20% of the population.

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No these services aren't suitable for everyone but they're suitable for a huge and growing amount of people, urbanization and civilization are the same thing. ICEs filling cities like Beijing carrying 1-2 people is literally killing people.

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The "urban areas" where 80% of the US population resides is nothing like what most people would consider urban. I believe my neighbor's 35 acre orchard and forest is considered urban because we live in a town with a population of about 7,000 people.

"The Census Bureau defines "urban" for the 1990 census as comprising all territory, population, and housing units in urbanized areas and in places of 2,500 or more persons outside urbanized areas."

Rural people are incredibly important to the other 80%.

The combine harvester is incredibly important for everybody, yet nobody considers them a mainstream mode of transport.

This was down voted so I upvoted it. It sounds flip but is insightful.

Huh, minus 3 for this comment as well. Are the differing needs of rural people really not important to the average HN commenter?

What does that have to do with the proliferation of self-driving and/or electrified cars? This is a non-sequitur. Do you think tractors and trucks will disappear?

You can be a city-dweller and not live in the city core.

20% of the population is still a huge number.

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